Antibiotic Resistance and Novel Approaches to Fight Against This Global Crisis.

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance: a bitter fight against evolution.

One of the most terrible consequences of Darwinian evolution is arguably the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance, which is becoming a serious menace to modern societies. While spontaneous mutation, recombination and horizontal gene transfer are recognized as the main causes of this notorious phenomenon; recent research has raised awareness that sub-lethal concentrations of antibiotics...

Avian Antibodies (IgY) to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotics are today found ubiquitous in our environment in constantly growing amounts. Antibiotics are given to animals as “growth factors”-especially to piglets, calves and chickens-to avoid weaning diarrhoea and to promote growth [1]. It is forbidden in Europe since 2006 and also in some states in USA. But they are still used widely in other countries. Antibiotics are distributed everywhere...

Industry in the fight against COVID-19 crisis

The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

INTRODUCTION The rapid emergence of resistant bacteria is occurring worldwide, endangering the efficacy of antibiotics, which have transformed medicine and saved millions of lives.1–6 Many decades after the first patients were treated with antibiotics, bacterial infections have again become a threat.7 The antibiotic resistance crisis has been attributed to the overuse and misuse of these medica...

A review of global initiatives to fight antibiotic resistance and recent antibiotics׳ discovery

Data from across the world have shown an overall decline in the antibiotic pipeline and continually rising resistance to all first-line and last-resort antibiotics. The gaps in our knowledge of existing prevalence and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance (ABR) are all too well known. Several decades of antibiotic abuse in humans, animals, and agricultural practices have created health emergency ...